Category: Church Matters

I have just taken part in a formal external review of the mission and ministry of Chelmsford Cathedral – or

This week I have spent four hours putting political leaflets through doors.  My children are appalled, for they support another

Is retirement a Biblical concept?  No says Rodney Macready, an Australian Baptist, in his book Retiring Retirement (Hendrickson, Peabody Massachusetts,

Today I want to honour my friend, Alan Wilkinson, who died just a few days ago on 3 May 2017.

Immediately following the sending out of the Twelve (Matt 10.5-15), Jesus declared: “See, I am sending you out like sheep

Like any other minister, I have read time and again John’s account of the calling of the first two disciples

Mary Magdalene “stood weeping outside the tomb” (John 19.11). Her tears were not just because Jesus was dead, but rather

Crucifixion was an awful agonising death. Yet strangely the New Testament gives few details about the torture involved. The one

Some 2000 years ago Jesus said to a handful of disciples: “I will build my church and the powers of

“No man is an island”, declared John Donne.  We are made to relate to others.  “It is not good for